June 02, 2023

Fusion Medical Staffing added two new members to its executive leadership team. Chief Clinical Officer Amber Barna is responsible for strategic management of the clinical and compliance departments. She has more than 20 years of experience, working most recently as VP of clinical and quality services of Medical Solutions. Chief Commercial Officer Nate Blessen is responsible for business strategy, growth and external relationships with clients, healthcare facilities and service providers. He also leads the MSP business Fusion Workforce. He brings 20 years of experience and previously served as the senior executive director of cardiovascular care, orthopedics and sports medicine at Sanford Health. Fusion’s three brands include Fusion Medical Staffing, Fusion Marketplace and Fusion Workforce Solutions.

The Association of Canadian Search, Employment and Staffing Services announced its national board of directors for the 2023-2024 year. The ACSESS National Board includes representatives from throughout Canada who serve for a two-year term and represent various industry sub-sectors. Rita Sposato, chief operations officer for Randstad Canada, Quebec, will serve as national president; first elected to the board in 2017, Sposato has held executive positions for the past four years. Angela Chambers of Mercer Bradley, Manitoba, will serve as secretary/treasurer, and Ted Maksimowski of Express Employment Professionals, Ontario, is now immediate past president. Executive members at large include Darlene Minatel of ManpowerGroup Canada, Ontario, and Paul Christie of Entourage HR Inc., Quebec. Other board members at ACSESS this year are Dr. Bryan Burlotte of Maxsys Staffing & Consulting, Tanya Cerniuk of Adecco Canada, Pamela Durigan of Employment Professionals Canada, Rhona Long of Synergie Hunt International, Bruce McAlpine of Fulcrum Search Science, Sheila Musgrove of TAG Recruitment Group, Jeff Nugent of Contractorpayrolling.com, Travis O’Rourke of Hays Canada, Stewart Sebben of Advantage Personnel and Randy Upright of Manpower Alberta.

Continuum Health IT, a healthcare IT consulting and staffing company headquartered in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, added Rebecca Manne as the executive VP of EHR implementation, providing executive oversight for operational readiness, advisory and training, and leadership for go-live projects. Manne previously served as executive VP at Optimum Healthcare IT and brings more than 45 years of clinical and operational experience to the role. She will report to Jeff Macko, president of the company.

Executive search firm Boyden named the following new global practice leaders:

• CEO and board services: Armin Meier, managing partner, Switzerland, and Jörg Kasten, managing partner, Germany
• Human resources: Diane Turek Pire, partner, United States (Summit, New Jersey)
• Financial services: Michael Lewis, partner, Canada
• Healthcare and life sciences: Nick Bellwood, partner, UK and Ireland
• Industrial: Helga Kayser-Dörr and Jutta Menzenbach, managing partners, Germany
• Professional services: Pierre Fouques Duparc, managing partner, France
• Technology: Rick Wargo, partner, United States (Seattle)

ApTask, a New Jersey-based workforce solutions provider, named Curtis Robinson as the managing director of its life science recruitment division. A recruitment executive with more than 20 years of experience, he most recently served as the head of recruiting and delivery practice at HCM Staffing and Consulting.

IT services giant Infosys Ltd. appointed Helene Auriol Potier as an independent director, effective May 26. Her global career in digital technologies and in the telecommunications industry has spanned multiple geographies including the US, Europe, Africa and Asia. From November 2018 to December 2020, she was executive VP in charge of international business B2B for Orange; prior to that, she spent 10 years serving in various senior leadership capacities at Microsoft, including CEO, Microsoft Singapore, and managing director, artificial intelligence Europe.